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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Intense and Relaxed | Sadhguru

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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Spirituality, Society & Culture, How To, Hinduism, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Religion, Science, Life Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Intensity and relaxation, explains Sadhguru, are the most essential qualities for one to become perceptive. However, most people misunderstand intensity as tension and relaxation as becoming lax. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You always talk about how one should be, I wanted to know what does it take in a person

0:15.0

and what can one person do to instill a quality of absolute intensity but at the same time be absolutely relaxed.

0:25.0

This question comes from a certain fundamental misunderstanding which is all over the place is,

0:32.0

right now most people are made like this.

0:37.0

If I ask you to be intense, you become tense.

0:44.0

If I ask you to relax, you become relaxed.

0:50.0

Intention and in laxity, your ability to perceive is greatly reduced, isn't it so?

0:59.0

Yes or no?

1:00.0

When you're tense, you don't even see things which are right in front of you.

1:05.0

When you're relaxed, also you do not see.

1:09.0

But to be intense and relaxed is the way.

1:15.0

Right now subiksha, ask this question, why the snake?

1:20.0

If you spend little time with a cobra, you will see it is always intense and relaxed.

1:29.0

Always, very intense and relaxed.

1:34.0

Only when its life is threatened, it may become little tense.

1:39.0

You can allow that much for reptile, okay?

1:42.0

But otherwise it's very intense and relaxed at the same time.

1:48.0

This is the quality of a yogi, intense and relaxed.

1:53.0

You've got to work at it.

1:55.0

When I say you've got to work at it, everything that's being thought to you, whatever the practice,

2:01.0

however simple it looks.

2:03.0

If you give yourself, that's what it is doing to you on one level.

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